And now, a Dutch anti-piracy group is pushing for the country's courts to implement a DNS and IP address blockade of The Pirate Bay among the nation's internet service providers, TorrentFreak reports. The move comes as ISPs in the U.S. plan on putting in place their own anti-piracy measures.

This recent case stems from 2010, when the anti-file sharing group, BREIN, went to court to force the largest Dutch ISP in the Netherlands to enact this block.

That internet service provider, alongside its top competitor, fought against BREIN in court and lost. They appealed the ruling and lost again and "BREIN, on the other hand, used the momentum to announce that it would sue even more ISPs to force them to censor TPB too."

These additional ISPs, which include UPC, KPN, Tele2, T-Mobile, and Telfort, now must ban 20 specific domains, such as "ThePirateBay.org, ThePirateBay.se, ThePirateBay.com, DePiraatBaii.be, and TheMusicBay.net.

These companies will probably appeal the decision, but have to adopt the block in the meanwhile. If they don't comply, they will have to pay up to 250,000 Euros in fines.

I never use the Pirate Bay in the US, as the laws here are so much harsher than in Europe, but when I was living in the Netherlands, everybody were downloading stuff through the Pirate Bay, as the Dutch government at the time saw no issue with this website. I used to buy plenty of DVDs, but the Pirate Bay a lot of stuff that is simply not available on DVDs to buy. Also, don't forget that Europe does not have Netflix, at least not when I was living there. So if the Pirate Bay is blocked in Holland, it will suck big time.